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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum sig. Ivi/2 Drawynge or takynge backe agayne, as if I mete wyth one & do take him backe agayne, receptio.

1610 J. Mason Turke iv. sig. H3^v My hope is yet dispaire will arme her hands To her owne death, and saue my sword a labour: If not, tis but the taking backe of what I gaue.

1685 E. Philipps Minority St. Lewis 17 The King must have been forc'd to have given them an entire Satisfaction, nor could he have avoided..the taking back of Angelberge.

1798 tr. W. Oppenheim Geogr. & Statist. Acct. Cisalpine Republic 233 In cases where the secretary and superintendent be able to give the least information respecting the taking back of the children.

1859 Jurist 29 May 460/2 The jury have found that it was not reasonable to take the goods back to London;..there was no assent to the taking back.

1913 J. Fox Heart of Hills xxvi. 247 He wondered if she had got his good-by note—the taking back of his promise to her.

1983 R. Ramsay Corsican Time-bomb v. 61 The taking back into public ownership of large estates.

2001 J. L. Felman Never Dull Moment viii. 163 I viewed early Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce tapes,..remembering Pryor's early dystopian, explosive taking back of the ‘N’ word.